The second season of Apple TV+’s legal thriller Presumed Innocent is adding another Emmy winner to its cast.
Matthew Rhys has joined the anthology series. The Americans and Perry Mason star joins Rachel Brosnahan and Jack Reynor in season two, which will be based on author Jo Murray’s forthcoming book Dissection of a Murder.
Presumed Innocent is the second Apple series Rhys has signed onto recently. He’s also starring in Widow’s Bay, about the residents of a seemingly cursed New England seaside town.
The first season of Presumed Innocent was based on Scott Turow’s novel of the same name (previously adapted for a feature film starring Harrison Ford) and starred Jake Gyllenhaal, Ruth Negga and Peter Sarsgaard. In renewing the show, Apple TV+ and the show’s creative team, which includes executive producers David E. Kelley and J.J. Abrams, opted to make the series an anthology.
The streamer is keeping plot details about season two quiet. Publisher Pan Macmillan’s description of Dissection of a Murder says the story will follow an attorney (Brosnahan) who is defending a man accused of murdering a judge.
Rhys will next be seen in Netflix’s The Beast in Me with Claire Danes; the limited series is set to premiere in November. He’s also set to star with John Krasinski in a serial-killer drama called Silent River at Prime Video. He is repped by CAA, Anonymous Content and United Agents.
Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions and David E. Kelley Productions produce Presumed Innocent in association with Warner Bros. Television. Kelley and Erica Lipez are co-showrunners of season two and executive produce with Abrams and Rachel Rusch Rich for Bad Robot, Matthew Tinker for David E. Kelley Productions, Dustin Thomason, Brosnahan and Gyllenhaal. Turow and Murray are co-EPs.